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yesterday, i dj'd before and after the Richard Youngs, Ignatz, Edgar Wappenhalter shows. dont remember in what order i played them, but is the full list of all the tracks that were played. a rather mixed bag i think: old and new, 'popular' and obscure, minimal and full blown, absctract or melodic. i can recommend all these songs, and all the albums/eps that the tracks are on.

Recently I hit '1300' artists in my library, so I thought I'd make a list of them all for posterity! Of course, I already removed one of those artists frmo my library during this process (it was my music, but under the wrong name...) and there are others I can probably get rid of immediately. But I want to take care in doing so.

Anyway, without further ado...this is the result of coming on up 5 years of scrobbling here at Last.fm, and away from it (on iPod). There have been times when I wasn't able to scrobble, so a lot of data wasn't recorded then. But other than those times, this is what we have...

For about the past 30 years in alternative rock, new-wave, post-punk, goth rock, grunge, indie, & other similar genres, the following are many of my personal favorite basslines to play along to. I have included songs that helped me learn how to play the bass (in the mid 90s), songs that i personally tabbed out for myself & an online page I had up for many years (RIP, Geocities - message me if you want the tab for the linked tracks &/or with the play icon), & songs i keep coming back to to either play along or just enjoy the bass blasting thru my speakers. Sure, there could be many more, but these are specifically ones that I can play & have listened to constantly... so they are, for the most part, not exceedingly difficult, but many are very fun! I even left some of the easy ones for variety... so hopefully anyone who sees this, particularly those that play bass guitar, will find some that they enjoy as much as i have :) Also, feel free to post any of your personal favorites below that could fit this list. …

Lou Barlow’s new album, Goodnight Unknown is coming out on October 5th."In the four years since his career-redefining, mostly acoustic record Emoh, Lou Barlow has reunited with Dinosaur Jr. and reissued three of Sebadoh’s classic albums. But as the brilliant new Goodnight Unknown illustrates, he’s hardly living in the past. Borrowing the live-band energy of Dinosaur Jr. and the stylistic reach of Sebadoh, Barlow has built on Emoh’s full production and written a set of immediate, melodic pop songs that Lou describes as, "a cross between my later work with The Folk Implosion and my earlier work with Sebadoh…to my ears, anyway"."You can get the new song, Gravitate, for free over here. Enjoy.

so, our mate Quinny is only young - born in 1987, he missed out on the majority of the whole britpop thing that defined most of our childhoods. lucky him, you might say, and you're probably right... but there's a large part of me that feels the need to educate our young friend about those heady, carefree days of yore...

to this extent, i've made the boy a mix... that became two mixes... that's now expanded to a hundred song playlist, dredging up a number of long forgottens that even i hardly gave time for 14 years ago...

inspiration came from a number of Shine compilations, as well as free CDs from the likes of Select, Vox, NME and Melody Maker still knocking around my bedroom. and of course, my own dodgy library of near hit singles and nomark albums i've gathered together in roughly 15 years of never throwing anything away.

i remember back in the day, beyond the obvious stuff carried forward on such compilations, some of the more interesting / obscure / flash in the pan…

I first saw the movie Kids on a pirate VHS cassette overdubbed in Russian sometime in late 1996 or early 1997. I think I probably had the Kids soundtrack earlier, probably based on the strength of the Folk Implosion song "Natural One". In the decade plus since, I have seen the movie once or twice more, but have listened to the soundtrack dozens, if not hundreds of times. Of course, I haven't played it more than once or twice in the last six or seven years, which is why I listened to it today. My thoughts? It's definitely better than the movie. And I am glad to have these songs back in my collection. But again, the reason I never ripped this in the first place is because I listened to it so much in high school, that it's permanently imprinted on my brain. Why do I need it on my iPod, when I can call up the key tracks from memory? Almost, anyway. There are essentially only three artists on the disc: Daniel Johnston, Lou Barlow (in Folk Implosion and Sebadoh mode), and Slint. …

Like most people, I imagine, I was turned on to the Folk Implosion by "Natural One". Fortunately, the Kids soundtrack also got me in to stuff like Slint, so it's not a total wash. Anyway, I probably didn't know who Sebadoh were when I first heard the Implosion, but I acquired lots of both of their records during my semi-collector period. The only Folk Implosion album I have (on CD at least) is "Take a Look Inside". It's nice and lo-fi and short and alright. I imagine that Lou Barlow intended it to sound like he'd just setup a tape recorder and his bedroom one night and whipped through a dozen songs, and that is pretty much what it sounds like. Only the songs are pretty good, for all their lo-fi nothingness. Sadly, nothing really stands out for me from this record, which is probably the reason I didn't bother to rip it for so long in the first place.

As always, if you decide to download the record, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.